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Ex Tillerson

US President Donald Trump has sacked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, replacing him with the director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo.

Thanking Mr Tillerson for his service on Twitter, Mr Trump said the new state secretary would do "a fantastic job".

Mr Tillerson, a former chief executive of ExxonMobil, was only appointed to the job just over a year ago.

The president also nominated Gina Haspel to become the first woman director of the CIA.

A senior White House official told the BBC about the timing of the announcement: "The president wanted to make sure to have his new team in place in advance of the upcoming talks with North Korea and various ongoing trade negotiations."

Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Tuesday, Mr Trump said his differences with Mr Tillerson came down to personal "chemistry".

"We got along actually quite well, but we disagreed on things," said the president.

"When you look at the Iran deal, I think it's terrible. I guess he thought it was OK.

"I wanted to either break it or do something and he felt a little bit differently, so we were not really thinking the same.

Media captionIn October, Rex Tillerson insisted he never wanted to quit - and dismissed as "petty" a report he called Mr Trump a moron
"With Mike, Mike Pompeo, we have a very similar thought process. I think it's going to go very well.

"Rex is a very good man I like Rex a lot."

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You had better pay your guild dues before you forget. You are 113 months behind.

Although there were some rumblings about this; notice how he fires him right after Tillerson sides with the UK on blaming Russia for the attempted assassination of a retired spy and his daughter. Again, a lot of smoke... but god damn that is A LOT OF FUCKING smoke!

Although there were some rumblings about this; notice how he fires him right after Tillerson sides with the UK on blaming Russia for the attempted assassination of a retired spy and his daughter. Again, a lot of smoke... but god damn that is A LOT OF FUCKING smoke!